Current Projects
Currently, I am undertaking four different research projects:
1. PhD - my PhD explores the compatibility between providence, especially divine foreknowledge, and creaturely freedom. In particular, I am exploring Thomistic and Molinist solutions to the alleged incompatibility posed by the problem of theological fatalism. I intend to posit that a synthesis of the two approaches can best rebut the fatalist objection. Currently, I am exploring epistemic warrant for counterfactuals of creaturely freedom and drafting a chapter which rebuts William Hasker's critique of scientia media.
2. I am currently preparing a manuscript for journal submission on male reproductive failure in early modern England. Expanding on my research during my MPhil at Cambridge, this paper will explore the silver lining that accompanied reproductive failure, thereby challenging the scholarly consensus that reproductive failure was an almost exclusively negative event for early modern Englishmen.
3. I have begun work researching the importance of property rights to environmental conservationism. In recent years, the importance of property rights to environmentalism has been highlighted by an increasing number of scholars (such as Garrett Hardin and Jonathan Adler), but this view has failed to gain widespread attraction among policy-makers. In exploring this area, I intended to provide a report to advise policy-makers on how to utilise property-rights in a way that incentivises ecologically-friendly behaviour and allows for a system of tort through which liability for environmental damage can be more readily assigned.
4. I am currently reviewing Kate Greasley's Arguments About Abortion: Personhood, Morality, and Law (OUP: 2017). The review focuses predominantly on Part 2 of the volume, which deals with the threshold for personhood. In the forthcoming review, I suggest that Greasley's arguments against the view that personhood is not a gradually emerging property lack significant weight and do not add anything substantially new to the literature of the ethics of abortion.
Currently, I am undertaking four different research projects:
1. PhD - my PhD explores the compatibility between providence, especially divine foreknowledge, and creaturely freedom. In particular, I am exploring Thomistic and Molinist solutions to the alleged incompatibility posed by the problem of theological fatalism. I intend to posit that a synthesis of the two approaches can best rebut the fatalist objection. Currently, I am exploring epistemic warrant for counterfactuals of creaturely freedom and drafting a chapter which rebuts William Hasker's critique of scientia media.
2. I am currently preparing a manuscript for journal submission on male reproductive failure in early modern England. Expanding on my research during my MPhil at Cambridge, this paper will explore the silver lining that accompanied reproductive failure, thereby challenging the scholarly consensus that reproductive failure was an almost exclusively negative event for early modern Englishmen.
3. I have begun work researching the importance of property rights to environmental conservationism. In recent years, the importance of property rights to environmentalism has been highlighted by an increasing number of scholars (such as Garrett Hardin and Jonathan Adler), but this view has failed to gain widespread attraction among policy-makers. In exploring this area, I intended to provide a report to advise policy-makers on how to utilise property-rights in a way that incentivises ecologically-friendly behaviour and allows for a system of tort through which liability for environmental damage can be more readily assigned.
4. I am currently reviewing Kate Greasley's Arguments About Abortion: Personhood, Morality, and Law (OUP: 2017). The review focuses predominantly on Part 2 of the volume, which deals with the threshold for personhood. In the forthcoming review, I suggest that Greasley's arguments against the view that personhood is not a gradually emerging property lack significant weight and do not add anything substantially new to the literature of the ethics of abortion.
Conferences and Working Papers
‘Male Infertility in Protestant England’, Religion and the Life Cycle, 1500-1800 Conference, Queen Mary University of London, 06/07/2018.
‘The Anabaptist Crisis: A Fresh Perspective on Anabaptists during the Reformation’, RefoRC 8th Annual Conference, University of Warsaw, 24/05/2018.
‘Hearing God: Aural Change and Continuity during the English Reformation’, Reformation London Conference, Senate House Library (University of London), 06/12/2017.
‘Henry III’s “cheque-book diplomacy”: Success or failure?’, Thirteenth Century England Conference, University of Cambridge, 06/09/2017 (with Tony Moore)
‘A medieval ‘debt ceiling’? Extraordinary Fiscal Measures During the Reign of Henry III’, Internal Seminar, University of Reading, 30/11/2016 (with Tony Moore).
‘On Popper and the Limits of Science’, University of Reading Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, University of Reading, 02/11/2016.
‘Male Infertility in Protestant England’, Religion and the Life Cycle, 1500-1800 Conference, Queen Mary University of London, 06/07/2018.
‘The Anabaptist Crisis: A Fresh Perspective on Anabaptists during the Reformation’, RefoRC 8th Annual Conference, University of Warsaw, 24/05/2018.
‘Hearing God: Aural Change and Continuity during the English Reformation’, Reformation London Conference, Senate House Library (University of London), 06/12/2017.
‘Henry III’s “cheque-book diplomacy”: Success or failure?’, Thirteenth Century England Conference, University of Cambridge, 06/09/2017 (with Tony Moore)
‘A medieval ‘debt ceiling’? Extraordinary Fiscal Measures During the Reign of Henry III’, Internal Seminar, University of Reading, 30/11/2016 (with Tony Moore).
‘On Popper and the Limits of Science’, University of Reading Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, University of Reading, 02/11/2016.